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Without Champions League football in 2026-27, there is every chance United will have to borrow money to spend significantly and dip back into their revolving credit facility — essentially, a bank overdraft — which funded much of last summer’s £215million expenditure.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026 -
With that, his brain is rebooted to factory settings, and Hank essentially dies in her arms, replaced by another blank slate.—
Jack King,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2026
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This type of policy dispute may be emotional but won’t fundamentally destroy mutual respect and goodwill.—
Colin Pascal,
Baltimore Sun,
1 Feb. 2026
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To overcome these issues, researchers are exploring advanced materials that can boost surface reactions and electrical responses while keeping power consumption low, aiming to fundamentally improve ethanol gas sensing performance.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Feb. 2026
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And Washington Commanders coach Dan Quinn will be feeling the pressure after receiving the latitude to basically fire his entire staff and still stick around.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb. 2026
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The clubs basically forced the city’s hand with the threat of building outside of Milan.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
5 Feb. 2026
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While skepticism toward artificial intelligence is understandable, dismissing AI as inherently harmful overlooks both history and reality.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Jan. 2026
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Beijing is also well aware that American democracy is inherently prone to flip-flops and that the hard-line Washington consensus on China is likely to return with the next election.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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The last challenge is that the very faint objects that are both intrinsically small and are located at great distances present a big challenge to any observatory that has to contend with Earth’s atmosphere.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Feb. 2026
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Cricket is intrinsically linked with alcohol in so many parts of the world.—
Paul Newman,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Elementally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elementally. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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